FAST FIVE: The Boycott Begins: Chinese Company Orders Employees To "Stop Using American Products, Eating At KFC"

Published by on May 22, 2019

In a harbinger of what's to come as the US-China trade war gets worse by the day, a Chinese company has told all of its employees to boycott American products and halt international travels to the US, reported The Epoch Times.

Employees must not go to the United States as a tourist.” The company's memo was emailed to employees several days after state-run newspaper Global Times published an editorial piece that called on the Chinese public to “fight a people's war” against the US As a result of a prolonged trade war with the US, the company said: “To help our country win this war, company authorities have decided that all employees must immediately stop purchasing and using American products.” The Times said the notice went viral on Chinese social media platforms: “Computers should be banned as well, because it is a US invention,” one Chinese internet user said.

Earlier this week, people across China called for an immediate boycott of Apple products after the Trump administration targeted Huawei.

“The functions in Huawei are comparable to Apple iPhones or even better.

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